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Contemporary attitudes towards molecular biology and the environment illustrate well the division between people who feel that science is a force for the good, and people who think that its pursuit can do a great deal of harm. This polarization of attitudes, which has long been evident, recently seems to have reached crisis proportions.
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ROSE, H. Pangloss and Jeremiah in Science. Nature 229, 459–462 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229459a0
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